You can use a plain text editor to check the file and remove the parts that you do not need. Note: Some word processors and HTML editors create HTML documents containing a lot of unnecessary HTML code. You can encode special characters using HTML in the normal ways-for example, you can encode a euro currency symbol (€) as € or as €. Or you can create the file using a special editor that supports HTML.Īn HTML signature file uses your operating system's default character set (which might not be the default character set that you specify for messages in Thunderbird). You can create the file using a plain text editor by typing the HTML tags yourself. html, for example: signature.html An HTML signature file only needs to contain an HTML fragment, not a complete HTML document. Discard the message.Īlternatively, use some other program to create an HTML file. Type the text you want for your signature, with whatever formatting and colors you want. To make an HTML signature file, write an HTML message in Thunderbird. (In a plain text message, an HTML signature is converted to plain text-some features might be lost if they cannot be represented in plain text.) You can use an HTML signature in HTML messages and also in plain text messages. You can use a plain text signature in plain text messages and also in HTML messages. Any signature file can be used by more than one identity. Each signature is either a simple signature stored in Thunderbird's preference settings, or it is stored a separate file on your computer. An HTML signature can specify fonts, colors, formatting, images, etc. On the identity's Settings page, specify the signature.Įach signature can be plain text or HTML. Select the identity and press the button: Edit. If you have more than one identity, then you must specify the signatures separately for each of them.įor an account's default identity, in Account Settings go to the account's main page and specify the signature in the Default Identity section there.įor any other identity, in Account Settings go to the account's main page and press the button: Manage Identities. Thunderbird allows you to have a signature for each of your identities (From addresses). With this addon, they are correctly detected as Shift_JIS or EUC-JP.This article was written for Thunderbird but also applies to Mozilla Suite / SeaMonkey (though some menu sequences may differ).Ī signature is a block of text that is added automatically when you compose a new message or a reply. Without this addon, sjis.txt and euc.txt are detected as "windows-1252" unexpectedly. You'll see detection result for file contents as "Content-Type:text/plain charset=." in each header of attachments. Attach samples/*.txt files to a new message. In other languages, they are possibly detected unexpected encodings. # Steps to test Note: these steps are just for a Japanese environments. This addon forces Thunderbird to use localized encoding detector based on the system language, As the result, plain text files will be attached with correct encoding.
For example, on a Japanese environment, "Shift_JIS" and "EUC-JP" are wrongly detected as "windows-1252".
# What's this? When I attach plaintext files to a mail, Thunderbird automatically tries to detect their character encoding from their contents, by the commit: However, because the universal (global, generic) detector is always used, Thunderbird often fails to detect character encoding of files.